“Flight Attendant” by XXX

XXX is a Seoul-based duo, consisting of music producer FRNK and rapper Kim Ximya. The highly anticipated debut album KYOMI was released just last month from their very own independent music label Beasts and Natives. The album was released in conjunction with the music video for “Flight Attendant”, a track that features a haunting, unconventional instrumental crafted by FRNK that’s only complemented by Kim Ximya’s acerbic verses.

For the “Flight Attendant” music video, Parisian artist Mattis Dovier unveils a demented, psychotic vision of an airplane trip gone awry. Told in his signature 8-bit-dot style, the black-and-white animation features a male protagonist whose perception of reality has seemingly shattered. Many harrowing happenings occur throughout the video: a woman is devoured by one of the cabin’s economy-sized seats, suffocating as her head is forcibly sucked into the headrest; a smiling flight attendant is gruesomely sliced in half, revealing her inner anatomy as she literally falls apart; and another scene shows an ebony serpent violently emerging from a woman’s eye socket, popping out an eye and winding through the orifices of her face. The chaotic video finally comes to an end as the main character wakes up, unsure about these disturbing hallucinations. To see more of Mattis Dovier’s animations, you can visit his Tumblr. XXX’s album KYOMI is now available on iTunes and other select online retailers.